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Friday, October 09, 2015 / Published in Local History, Manuscript Collection, New Donations, Photograph Collection

Horses Crossing the French Broad River on a Ferry

Before there were bridges across the French Broad River, there were ferries. And then there were no bridges across the river, according to F.S. Sondley in A History of Buncombe County North Carolina, when in “1865 the Yankee invasion up the French Broad River burned the bridges at Alexanders and at what is now Craggy.
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